Speed Climbing News

May 25th 2017 Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold set a speed record on Free Rider at 5:35.

Early August 2016 Miranda Oakley became the first women to solo The Nose of El Capitan in a single day. (one of four women to solo the route. - Jacki, Jess, Chantel, and Miranda)She snuck in at just under 22 hours. Way to go Miranda! more here

September 2015 I climbed The Nose for my 100th time with Fiona Thornewell and Jayme Moye. We did it in classic big wall camping style over four days. more here.

October 17th 2014, Quinn Brett and Libby Sauter do the first time link up of two El Cap routes by a woman team. The Nose and Lurking Fear!http://www.climbing.com/news/first-time-two-el-cap-routes-in-a-day-for-womens-team/#comment-661614

July 13th I climbed The Triple Direct in 17 hours and 29 minutes by myself. - Hans. more details

November 6th 2013 Cheyne Limpe became the second person to climb The Salathe in a day solo! He also set the record, beating Steve Schneider's 1992 - 22+ hour ascent by over an hour, with a time of 20 hours and 6 minutes.

Oldest person to do NIAD, (Nose In A Day) was Tuesday October 1st! Eric Perlman 63 years old. His partner was 51 year old Peter Mayfield.

Late September 2013 Mayan Smith-Gobat and Sean Leary set he F/M Nose Speed record at 3:28.

NEW NOSE RECORD! June 17th. Alex Honnold and Hans Florine climbed The route in 2:23:46.

June 10th New Woman's Nose Record! Jess Meiris and Quinn Brett climb it in 10:19

June 5th Alex Honnold climbed, by himself, Mt Waltkins, was reported 2/3rds the way up The Nose at 2am on the 6th, and was supposed to head to climb The RNWF on Half Dome. THE TRIPLE link up SOLO in 24 hours! by the time you read this he will probably be done.

May 16th Jason Wells and Stefan Griebel set an amazing speed record for climbing and descending the classic Naked Edge (5.11).They broke the existing record of 1 hour 13 minutes from Bridge to Bridge, BTB, by 25 minutes.

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September 16th 2011 Libby Sauter and Chantel Astorga set the women's speed record on the Nose route. Congrats Chantel and Libby! 10 hours and 40 minutes.

Fall 2011 saw an attempt at The Nose Record by Alex Honnold and Hans Florine. Their best time was 3:37:30, just 45 seconds slower than the record set November 2010.

2011 is here, is your New Years resolution to "Climb with Hans?"

I am kicking my 2011 off as per below:

I am offering a day of climbing, (in 2011), to anyone who donates $2,000, in my and their name, to any of the seven organizations listed below. You must commit and actually make payment to the organization by end of the day Friday January 14th 2011.

November 6th - NEW NOSE RECORD! Sean Leary and Dean Potter 2:36:45 ! word has it they will go to do better. Great job guys!

November 2010- Ammon McNeely reported to me a few weeks ago that he had completed his 50th different route on El Capitan! He's done more than 65 ascents as well. See more climber's all time ascent tallies here. I hear Sean and Dean are taking goes at The Nose record! I hope they tell us all when they go for a run. - I want to watch!

FALL 2010 - NOT NORMAL weather. We had the coldest summer on record and tha past week it's been pretty warm. Could be a great "Indian Summer" for climbing THIS FALL. Get to Yosemite and send me some reports of your climbing. - Hans

HATE dealing with camping scene or NO CAMPING AVAILABLE? I've got some dates open at my home. www.hansbasecamp.com

Sean Leary and Alex Honnold climbed El Cap Three times in a day. - around July 5th 2010 or so? Nose-4:17 Salathe-6:00? and Lurking Fear-? Fricken awesome!

Alex Honnold became the third person to do THE LINK UP on June 22nd. he climbed Half Dome in the morning in 2 hours and 9 minutes and climbed The Nose in an astounding 5 hours and 49 minutes! he took a 30 ft piece of rope on half dome and a 60 meter cord on El Cap. he only used the cord on El Cap for the aid section just below the boot flake, the king swing, and the great roof. mostly free soloing and shuttling gear for the rest of it. Way to go Alex!

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Alex Honnold and Ueli Steck Took goes at the Nose Record in early June! Unfortunately their efforts have stopped as Ueli took aproximately a 50 ft leader fall and was shaken up with some scraps and bruiese, but all mendable. see www.supertopo.com or mountainhardware.com for news.

LATEST UPDATE

October 12: We did it! 2:37:05. New Record! Thanks to the four parties that let us go by. Especially Hanah and Hilde and also Paul, Travis, John, Polish party and everyone else and our loving wives.

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October 8: 2:48:23. We were 6 minutes faster than our record run from July 2nd when we made it to Dolt Tower in 48 minutes! Somehow a few tiny rope snags and roughness on the top half cost us some 11 minutes. Looks like all the marbles are in Sunday's basket.

October 5: Yuji and Hans climbed the Nose in 3:38 Sunday afternoon, passing five parties and topping out under headlamp. Yuji's foot is healing nicely from his fall early last week. Big Thank you to Dr Jeffrey of Modesto for working on Yuji, and creating faster healing Sunday morning. We are optimistic about a record run on Wednesday the 8th and Sunday the 12th.

October 2nd: Yuji is headed into the Bay Area to do a little gym climbing with Hans while giving his ankle a little rest. He was walking normally today. No noticeable limp.

October 1st: CRASH! Yuji takes a 20 meter fall on "FreeStone" and bruises his heel. Xray reveals no breaks or fractures. Holding pattern.......

September 29th: Yuji and Hans climb the Nose in 4:07

September 26th: Yuji and Steve Schneider climb up the Nose in around 7 hours.

September 20 and 21: Yuji and Hans go to Utah High Adventure Mountain Film Festival and accept LifeClimb Achievement Award.